Sunday, October 4, 2009

Responsible IT Leadership

proper IT Risk Management produces IT Compliance, Business Continuity, and E-Discovery Preparedness, all at the same time. <-- means lower overall costs! Ask me how.
Responsible IT Leadership produces, when followed, responsible IT Usage.

show them, teach them, test them, show them how to test themselves, repeat.

Build-in change management controls, show them, teach them, test them, teach them to test themselves, repeat.

Too many organizations will rather have YOU test them and maintain the change management controls and tests, which means job security.

Responsible IT Leadership produces IT Security (the C.I.A.), IT Compliance, Business Continuity, and E-Discovery preparedness, all under the single umbrella of Responsible IT Usage.

Saturday, September 29, 2007

IT Risk Management

All of the risks that have always been there that most organizations have not taken seriously because they don't realize, or they have been misled, or they have not personally experienced loss in any IT area, or because no one they know has experienced such loss, or even because they think that software creators 'are going to' save them before it actually happens to them, and so they figure that the chance that loss in the IT area is so remote that they CAN risk it, or simply because the consequences of NOT taking the risk seriously has been no incentive TO DO so,

like the physical security of your IT assets, your back-ups and disaster recovery, your computer and network access control, your user permissions, and your data; your data confidentiality, your data integrity, and your data availability. All of the things that can cause system(s) degradation and loss of use. Changes, change management, neglect thereof, etc., etc.

PLUS

Business regulations and requirements have created risks for organizations that, at the very least, create higher costs.

PLUS

Our litigious society's predominate method of communications has EVOLVED from pen and paper to digital, and we will never go back, short of a nuclear holocaust; SO, digital communication has requirements for litigation.

Risk of Loss, Risk of HIGHER COSTS!!!


SANCTIONS for attorneys AND their clients, or, attorney's clients AND their attorneys.